Jean Baptiste Shoults (1799 - 1845)

Born 31 Oct 1799 in Carondelet, St Louis County, Missouri

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Louise (Menard) Shoults — married 1823 in Carondelet, St Louis County, Missouri

Husband of Elizabeth (Adams) Shoults — married 8 Apr 1834 in Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Died 5 Oct 1845 at age 45 in Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Jean Baptiste Shoults was born in October 31, 1799, in Carondelet, a village of modern day St Louis, a son of George Shoults and Victoire Tesson. Jean Bpatiste's maternal grandfather, Louis Tesson dit Honoré served with the St Louis Militia at the Battle of St Louis, an unsuccessful attack led by the British on St. Louis (a French settlement in Spanish Louisiana, founded on the West Bank of the Mississippi River after the 1763 Treaty of Paris) on May 26, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. Louis Tesson is Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Ancestor #A113777. Applications for membership in the Society of the DAR have been made by the descendants of Jean Baptist and his first wife, Marie Louise Menard. ^[1]

In 1823, Jean Baptiste Shoults married Marie Louis Menard, daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Dufour) Menard, of Carondelet. Marie Louise was born on March 25, 1806, in St Louis. Children of Jean Baptiste and Marie include:

• J.B. Felix Shoults, born January 30, 1827

• Josephine Shoults, born in April, 1829

• Elizabeth Shoults, born August 4, 1830, died after 1905, in Belle Plane, Scott county, Minnesota, married Balthasar Gunther, born circa 1826, in Germany

• Marie Louis Shoults, born August 15, 1833
• Victoire Shoults, born in September, 1833 (?)

• Marguerite, born March 12, 1835, and died August 12, 1835.

Marie Louise (Menard) Shoults died on August 15, 1833, at twenty-seven years of age. Jean Baptiste was married again on April 8, 1834, to Elizabeth Adams, daughter of Joseph and Marguerite (Cote') Adams. They had a son

• Benedict Wilson Shoults, born April 5, 1838 (SS May & Joseph Bpr Date).

Jean Baptist Shoults died October 5, 1845 at Caroldolet. He is probably buried in the same cemetery as his parents: ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Nat'l #: 1013663 Ancestor #: A113777
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #43902618 George Shoults

• History of Christopher Shoults Family, researched and written for Janne Shoults Gorman, by Robert E. Perkin, president of the Missouri Historical Society, 1993
• St. Louis Probate Records 1804-1849. George Shoults, Sr. 02 21 1842, Rec 09 09 1843. Olive Shoults, wf; John B., Joseph, George Jr., Israel, Henry, Solomon, Jordain & Philip Shoults sons; Louis Constant Jr., Andreas Constant, Francois Constant & Victoire Morel w/o Justin Morel ch/o Louis Constant Sr (recd 1/11th of est); Victoire Buchanan, Eliza Shoults daus; John Buchanan snil; Louis Constant Sr.; Joseph LeBlond, Benoist Marichall & John B. Gamache wits. C:70-71 (see also p. 73)